| One should really use the camera as though | Sometimes you can tell a large story with a |
| tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. | tiny subject. - Eliot Porter |
| - Dorothea Lange | |
| | No place is boring, if you've had a good |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | night's sleep and have a pocket full of |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | unexposed film. - Robert Adams |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | matter of noticing things and organizing them. |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | You just have to care about what's around you |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | and have a concern with humanity and the |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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| Pictures you have taken have an influence on | It is not the language of painters but the |
| those that you are going to make. | language of nature which one should listen to. |
| That's life! - John Sexton | . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for |
| | reality, is more important than the feeling for |
| I think you have to have a real point of view | pictures. - Vincent Van Gogh |
| that's your own. You have to tell it your way. | |
| And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| specific magazine's point of view because it's | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| never going to be as good. You have to shoot | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| for yourself and photograph [the way] you | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
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